"I don't want to fight you, young master. Get out of my way!"
In the Zhanyuan Realm, a shrill cry pierced the dim, lightless void.
Amid a stretch of ruins floating in midair, a female figure holding a four-stringed pipa flashed rapidly through the wreckage.
She fled on the waves of sound she raised. Wherever those waves reached, she could teleport.
This made her movements eerily unpredictable. Si Huangquan struck seven times in succession without managing to wound her.
Instead, the woman's pipa music kept shaking Si Huangquan's blood and qi, throwing all his internal organs into turmoil.
She was a type of sound ghost, the Pipa Ghost among the Hundred Ghosts serving Yin Empress Tian Naluo.
The Pipa Ghost held a four-stringed pipa. Plucking forward was called "pi," and plucking backward was called "pa"; its four strings represented the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter.
Not only could the Pipa Ghost injure enemies by playing her pipa, she could also command the powers of the four seasons and possessed a certain ability to foresee the future. She was an extremely powerful, extremely troublesome member of the Hundred Ghosts.
"It's not that I refuse to give you the Yin Empress Core! I can't. You'll die. We'll all die!"
The Pipa Ghost's voice was piercing, but it likewise battered and shook Si Huangquan's flesh and divine soul.
Just ten li away, Chu Xisheng hovered in the air, watching the battle between the human and the ghost thoughtfully.
Lu Luanli shook her head slightly. "She's certainly powerful, and her control over her strength is decent, but her combat experience is lacking. There were at least three opportunities just now to severely injure the Pipa Ghost. Still, the yin veins the Yin Empress left her are truly formidable. In terms of